Adobe Speaks Out On Apple and It's Device Restrictions

If anyone has been following Apple products, they will notice that Flash does not work on the iPhone and wasn't shown working for the iPad either. Adobe's been trying to get Flash working on the iPhone and has had zero success since its first introduction to the market in 2007. Since the OS carries over from the iPhone to the iPad, there is no word if Flash will ever work unless Apple does something about it. The Adobe Flash Platform blog mentioned the following:

"It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not be able to access ePub content with Apple's DRM technology on devices made by other manufacturers. And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web.

If I want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab -- not to mention the millions of other sites on the web -- I'll be out of luck."

Adobe didn't hesitate to mention that their Open Screen Project continues to bring Flash to many other devices, such as the Nokia N900, which runs Flash 9 perfectly fine on a 600MHz ARM Cortex A8-based TI OMAP 3 processor and that the Palm Pre will be able to run Flash 10.1 with its new webOS 1.4 (when it is released) on the same chip. Apple seems to be continuing to impose their restrictions but will this keep up? Time will tell.